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Randall Kohl presents a lecture and solo guitar recital of compositions and arrangements by Orizaban guitarist Octaviano Yáñez (1865 - 1927). Though largely unknown today, Yáñez was considered ...
Vivian L. Huang is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, specializing in race and performance studies. Huang's first book, Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability, ...
San Francisco State University Professor and Director of Veteran Documentary Corps, Daniel Bernardi, has received a grant from the National Cemetery Administration's Veterans Legacy Program to make ...
THE TECAKE -- Danny Glover was born on July 22, 1946, in San Francisco, to Carrie (Hunley) and James Glover.
In 2018, San Francisco State University announced a $25 million gift from alumni and philanthropists George and Judy Marcus, the largest gift in University history. Five years later, the gift ...
SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER -- “San Francisco is more of a jazz town than any other city in California,” says Marsalis, who conducted master classes in the genre at San Francisco State University in the ...
When filmmakers want access to historical footage of the Bay Area’s past, they turn to San Francisco State University, home to a massive and unique archive of local television news-film and ...
The Montford Point Marines were the first 20,000 African Americans trained to be servicemembers in the 1940s To commemorate Black History Month, a San Francisco State University documentary team will ...
A cofounder of the University’s Women Studies program, Gearhart was the first out lesbian hired for a tenure-track position at SF State. Communication Studies Professor Emerita Sally Miller Gearhart ...
GOLDEN GATE XPRESS -- In a recent episode of NPR’s podcast “Code Switch,” Jerry Wayne Varnado spoke about SF State’s ethnic studies strike in 1968 which lasted until March 20, 1969.
POTRERO VIEW (SAN FRANCISCO) -- Linenthal grew up in Presidio Heights. His mother, Alice Adams, who died in 1999, was a short story writer and novelist.
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW (PENNSYLVANIA) -- Pittsburgh native Bill Shannon is the subject of “Crutch,” co-directed by Sachi Cunningham, another Pittsburgh native. She is an associate professor of ...